Partners
Prayer Partners:
9 Current
1 Needed
Total Opportunity:
$61,849 Funded
$0 Needed
Demographics
- Location:
- India
- Speakers:
- 301,000
- Start Year:
- 2002
- End Year:
- 2013
Reports to Investors
Priau NT
The Priau people are traditionally animistic spirit worshippers, but the national religion also influences their culture and beliefs. They live in a number of villages spread throughout a forested area, each lead by a respected community leader. Each Priau community typically clears forest areas for cultivation. In addition, they gather resources from the forest and hunt. Outsiders often exploit the Priau people because of their inability to read or write.
Foreign missionaries worked among the Priau people about 75 years ago, but many people fell away from the faith because they didn’t have the Bible in the Priau language. When national missionaries began working in 1998, they started with an emphasis on Bible translation. Now there are about 1,500 Priau believers who are strong in the faith amidst opposition and have seen miracles of healing. The Priau church urgently needs help translating the Word of God in their language.
News from the Field
- May07
Priau of India
301,000 speakers who are traditionally animistic spirit worshipers although their religion is heavily influenced by the national religion. Swedish and Norwegian missionaries brought the Gospel to the area around 75 years ago. Several churches resulted but struggled without a Bible they could understand. Since then the country has become hostile to missionary activity. - Nov27
Daily Prayer: the Priau people of India
Pray with us for the Priau people.